2007 Holiday Celebration Photos
Friday December 14, 2007
Wednesday December 12, 2007
6:00 - Introduction to Visio by Leona Rubin, Information Architect
7:15 - Brett Barndt: Left Brain vs Right Brain: The New Hybrid Designer, masters the coding savviness of a developer coupled with the aesthetics and user awareness of a designer.
Brett Barndt, BFA, MS Public Policy and Industrial Administration. Brett has consulted with Citigroup, Fidelity, Deutsche Bank, GE, Morgan Stanley, Adecco, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, L'Oreal, Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thomson, Reuters, and CNBC
Wednesday November 14
6:00 - PHP and CSS table-less layout code review by Ashod Kassabian
6:30 - Introduction to Visio by Leona Rubin, Information Architect
6:45 - Gary Mort Organizer of the Joomla User Group presents
Template Modification and Joomla Layouts.
A summary of what Joomla is, and a demonstration of how to setup a site, positioning modules using the templates.
7:15 - Forest Mars, Network Analyst | Information Architect Samples of attractive and effective Joomla sites. / Q&A
Build a PHP/MySQL based Database-Driven Website
Using an Open Source Framework with WordPress, Joomla, ZenCart or Drupal in less than an hour
by Consultant Stephen Britton.
Download Frameworks 101 presentation pdf
and Word notes
Wednesday October 10, 2007
6:00 - PHP and CSS table-less layout code review by Ashod Kassabian
6:15 - Agility is Everything DevSource video
6:30 - Introduction to Visio by Leona Rubin, Information Architect
6:45 -
What is a framework website?
As you probably know, there are several open source website frameworks based on PHP/MySQL. The most popular are WordPress, Joomla, ZenCart and Drupal. The benefit from using these sites is they allow web developers and web designers to instantly build a database driven website.
As recently as five years ago you would have to hire a programming crew for days to build a database driven website with a Content Management System (CMS).
Today it is possible to build the same CMS website in less than an hour.
Consultant Stephen Britton will show how to build a CMS website using the popular WordPress program, which is based on the PHP programming language and MySQL database. He will also briefly demonstrate two other popular open source CMS programs - Joomla and Drupal.
If you need to build a database driven website fast... these programs are the way to go.
7:45 - Website Usability Testing
Wednesday September 12
6:00 - PHP and CSS table-less layout code review by Ashod Kassabian
6:15 -
Rob Howard
Taking Advantage of ASP.NET 2; DevSource
video.
6:30 - Introduction to Visio by Leona Rubin, Information Architect -
Management Consultant. / Q&A
6:45 - Shobhit Dixit: Senior Application Developer. has been creating websites for film studios, investment banks, and retailers across the world. He will be talking about the importance of merging technologies in today's world.
Showbit's skills range from Windows technologies: C Sharp, Databases,
ASP.NET, MySQL, PHP; to Adobe Photoshop and Flash.
He will also present on best practices, how to obtain freelance assignments from Craigslist (computer gigs), and create you own team on a budget.
7:45 - Website Usability Testing
Wednesday June 13
6:00 - PHP and CSS table-less layout code review by Ashod Kassabian Analysis of complex internal/external style sheets.
6:15 - Lou Rosenfeldon the Content Arms Race. Inforamation Architecture for the WWW. The Polar Bear book. DevSource short video
Great Minds in Development
6:30 - Introduction to Visio by Leona Rubin, Information Architect -
Management Consultant. Q&A
6:45 - Mahesh Chhatlani: XML. XML is incorporated into nearly every
software application that is being used to present or transfer data.
7:45 - Website Usability Testing Q&A
Wednesday May 9
6:00 - PHP and ASP includes with CSS table-less layout code review by Ashod Kassabian.
Analysis of complex internal/external style sheets.
6:15 -
Jennifer Tharp discusses the role of project managers in agile
development; DevSource short video
Great Minds in Development
6:30 - Introduction to Visio by Leona Rubin, Information Architect -
Management Consultant.
6:45 - Walter Morales:
E-mail Marketing / Q&A
7:45 - Website Usability Testing
Wednesday April 11
6:00 - PHP and CSS table-less layout code review by
Ashod Kassabian Analysis of complex internal/external style sheets. / Q&A
6:15 - The Fuzzy Front-End of Development by George Olsen;
the role of usability, information access and aesthetics in software development. DevSource short video
Great Minds in Development / Q&A
6:45 - Introduction to Visio by Leona Rubin, Information Architect - Management Consultant. / Q&A
6:45 -
Dreamweaver Version Control -
Check In/Check Out -
Google;
managing your Web site in a team environment by Patti Martin (cancelled) Simplex Knowledge Company; - Q&A
7:30 - Website Usability Testing / Q&A
Wednesday March 14
6:00 - CSS and PHP code for layout by Ashod Kassabian.
Analysis of complex internal/external style sheets. /Q&A
6:20 -
Steve Krug talks about several usability topics that can help software developers and web designers improve the quality of their applications and websites. Steve is the auther of "Don't make me Think". DevSource short video
Great Minds in Development Q&A.
6:40 - Enterprise Architect by Leona Rubin. Enterprise Architect is a UML tool used for executing build, test and debug commands. This can all be done within the Enterprise Architecture tool. As a W3C WSDL Code Engineering compliant tool, it contains the ability to do W3C XML Schema Reverse Engineering, Live Code Engineering, Model Validation and Meta-Modeling (MOF). /Q&A.
7:40 - Website Usability Testing/Q&A
Wednesday February 14, 2007
Structuring Information Techniques
for Web Site Design by Leona Rubin
Management Consultant, Information Architect
Our speaker Leona Rubin, Management Consultant/Information Architect works in the Financial Services industry for Enterprise Iron.
Leona has worked for innovative fortune 500 leaders such as: Checkfree, Dun & Bradstreet, Chase Manhattan Bank,
Deutsche Bank.
This presentation will cover industry standard tools such as Visio, RUP and UML modeling methodology used during the planning stages of website design. With Web 2.0 services exploding, these tools will be essential to designers and you don't want to miss this!
Wednesday January 10, 2007
Dynamic Website Site Security & Best Practices
Securing and using popular scripts and applications like blogs & wiki
Columbia U's on a website by Terry Culkin
Terry Culkin manages dynamic driven applications, systems support and training at Columbia University Libraries. He has worked for content management, dot-com, advertising and publishing companies prior. He has over ten years of professional Information Technology experience from technical support, network administration to web development. One of his sites, technicallyforeign.com, is a technology blog he recently started. Terry has been using Dreamweaver for the last 8 years with both static and dynamic web development.
Over the years he has found that basic security practices will help a developer and website owner keep there site and information secure. Since a websites is equivalent to virtual store fronts or house it's important to make sure it's properly secure. Would you leave your front door wide open or the key in the door? The use of open source scripts can make anyone build and maintain their own website, but at what risk? What are the positive and negative results of using some of today's Web 2.0 applications like Blogs and Wiki's on your business or personal website? How do you make sure you're not the next victim of hackers, malware and other Internet Predators? These questions and more on dynamic development and security will be discussed.
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